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    Misprint in the Urtext Op. 123 Mass Score?

    I just bought the G. Henle Verlag urtext folio score of the Missa (with piano reduction). I have a question about the final Presto of the Gloria -- seven measures from the end. The chorus is singing "in excelsis." The first two chords of the measure are notated with an F# from the key signature, but shouldn't that F# have a natural accidental in front of it? It seems as if those first two chords of the measure should be a G7 (a dominant). But I hate to secondguess an urtext printing. Does anyone know for sure here?

    Second, does anyone know of a piano recording of the Missa (based on the reduction in this or any folio)?

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    Dear DavidO;

    I have a piano reduction by G. Schirmer. I also have the full score by Peters.

    Harmonic analysis is not my forte, but I looked at the passage 7 bars from the end of the Gloria. Since the key signature is D major, it seems to be a subdominant G chord to me. In the 6th bar from the end, there is a C-natural suggesting that there is modulation to G.
    Last edited by Hofrat; 04-26-2007, 09:21 AM. Reason: spelling error.
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      #3
      Well going from the miniature score I'm not sure where you are because the chorus are silent 7 bars from the end? If you mean 13 bars from the end where they are singing excelsis then the F# is correct as it appears in the other orchestral parts (Organ, 1st violin,flutes and oboes). The continued C natural for several bars does suggest G major as Hofrat says, but it is over a tonic bass of D in the timpani so really he is lingering on the subdominant and using a series of plagal cadences ending firmly in D major.
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